Alma Mae Hill Hennings

HENNINGS HILL TURNER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/27/2010 at 16:43:18

Sioux City Journal
29 March 2007

MOVILLE, Iowa -- Alma Mae (Hill) Hennings, of Moville met her Savior Monday, March 26, 2007, at Correctionville Nursing and Rehab Center in Correctionville, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Climbing Hill First Baptist Church in Climbing Hill, Iowa, with the Rev. James Wilson officiating. Burial will be in Westfork Township Cemetery. There will be a luncheon with the family at the church. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Christy-Smith McCulloch Chapel in Moville.

Alma Mae (Hill) was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, 1906, in Giffordsville, Woodbury County, Iowa. She was the youngest of five children born to Joseph and Charlotte (Turner) Hill and was a lifelong resident of Woodbury County.

She graduated in 1924 from Climbing Hill Consolidated High School. While in high school, she played basketball and was a member of the 1922 Iowa state championship basketball team. She attended Morningside College, where she received her teaching certificate. She taught for 10 years in rural Woodbury County township schools.

On Feb. 14, 1931, she married Arthur L. Hennings in Sioux City. They farmed in the Moville Township area for the next 40 years, before retiring in 1971. Arthur Hennings died in 1991. She also was a lifetime member of the Climbing Hill Baptist Church and taught Sunday School there for many years.

She enjoyed sewing, quilting, crocheting, canning and gardening. She was always willing to share all of her endeavors and knowledge with family, friends and neighbors. Many of her projects were entered in the Woodbury County Fair, where she received numerous awards and ribbons. She also possessed a keen sense of wit. She was an avid genealogist and was an active 25-year member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She will be greatly missed by her family, friends and neighbors.

She is survived by three children, Marilyn Erps of Plymouth, Mich., Donald and Carole (Zeising) Hennings of Moville and David of Las Vegas, Nev.; seven grandsons; and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur; two infant sons, Larry and Alvin; her brothers and sisters; and her parents.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Robert Erps of Pinckney, Mich., Stephen Erps of Grass Lake, Mich., Mark Hennings of Henderson, Nev., Brian Hennings of Lisbon, Wis., Eric Hennings of Lawton, Iowa, and Scott Hennings of Sioux City.